Thursday, January 22, 2009

Blip.fm [like muxtape but better]

Leila hipped me to blip.fm last week, but it wasn't until this afternoon that I had time to sink my teeth in. This excellent post on sneakmove also prompted further investigation. I've been playing around with blip for an hour or so and love the twitter aspect of it, which allows you to post a very tiny blurb about why YOU like the song. This simple but effective tweak (to a muxtape or hype machine interface) seems much more conducive to sharing and discovering new music, rather than strictly encouraging the mass download / dump in to recycle bin mentality that other, less thoughtful, applications seem to perpetuate.

"best way i can describe it is as a combination of muxtape, hype machine, and twitter. you set up a profile, search for artists or songs, and any that have been posted online by someone come up in the results. you can then “blip” a song via a short post that resembles a tweet, and anyone who sees your blip can then stream that entire song."